I love my planet. I'll plant a tree, flowers, herbs; I'll pick up garbage, recycle, compost. But when you tell me that my turning off my lights for an hour one day a year is going to have a major impact on the planet? I'm calling faulty there. It's not being saved anywhere, why are people so naive. Once the lights come back on, what was "stored" gets sucked back up from the system again anyways. (Hey, did anyone see the YouTube video of the people who signed a petition to ban water, under the pseudonym "Dihydrogen Minoxide"(sp?), merely because someone gave it a technical, science-y type name that no one understood?? It was a hoax but one that proved a VERY good point...that people will sign or believe anything so long as it sounds technical and presented in a very serious tone. Check it out here).
What also gets my goat is...we're all told to conserve energy: turn off lights and electronics when not in use, turn off lights during the day, do laundry/washes at off peak hours...for what? So we can suck up the stored energy with these "Electric cars"? Ok, so what's going to happen when this "Apocalypse" everyone's so afraid of happens? Electric cars aren't going to get ANYONE anywhere. It'll be the gas-fuelled cars that get people who survive from place to place (and before anyone goes off on a tangent about not being able to pump gas without electricity...ever hear of suction power without the use of electricity? I think...it's called "Reverse Osmosis" or something similar (I'm not a sciency type person lol...I know there's a technical term for sucking liquid from one container to another using nothing more than gravity or something like that...I've seen it done).
While conserving energy IS a good thing...don't sell me, an eskimo, ice I don't need. Conserving energy stores up money in the wallet to pay for all the other crap that's going up in price (namely food and water). Don't tell me that saving an hours worth of electricity a year is going to do anything, cause I won't believe you.
People need to think of more meaningful ways to contribute if they will, an hour of lights off a year won't do much no, governments need too see the bigger picture of what they can do too, not just saying the environmental problems are the peoples cause and we can fix it. I know they say we have so much power but will me recycling something amount to the good that can be done if the government got rid of dirty energy?
ReplyDeleteI am a vegetarian and an organic consumer and a bit (okay a lot) of a treehugger but unlike some people I am realistic. The world could do a lot better with three things rationality, respect and common sense.
I'm not a vegetarian. I don't eat red meat, but I do eat chicken and fish alongside my veggies, and I'm no treehugger (even though I've hugged a tree once or twice in my life), I think society is naive and allowing governments to dictate how and what they should believe without thinking about it logically. "Earth Hour" is not logical in my eyes. It's but a band-aid solution.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting :)